Seventeenth Annual Meeting Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning Hood River, Oregon August 4 to August 8, 2011 1 Seventeenth Annual Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning August 4 to August 8, 2011 Hood River Hotel Hood River Oregon See Breakfast Poster Titles at End of Schedule Thursday, August 4 4:30 PM Reception & Appetizers 4:45 PM Welcome And Introductory Remarks Presentations – 10 minutes 4:55-5:05 PM Bill Prinzmetal, Ariel Rokem, & Michael A. Silver What Stimulus Attributes are Enhanced by Attention? 5:05-5:15 PM Ali Jannati & John J. McDonald Investigating Salience-driven Attention Caption in Fixed Feature Visual Search: Behavioural and ERP evidence Talks – 30 minutes 5:20-5:50 PM David E. Anderson & Edward Awh Discrete Resource Limits in Visual Search 6:00-6:30 PM Carly J. Leonard & Steven J. Luck Tracking Changes in the Attentional Window with Visual Event Related Potentials 6:40-7:10 PM John J. McDonald, Jennifer A. Schneider, Christina M. Hull & Steven A. Hillyard Covert Spatial Orienting of Attention in Spatial and Nonspatial Auditory Tasks 7:20 PM Adjourn For Evening 2 Friday, August 5 8:30 AM Breakfast - Posters 9:00-9:30 AM Frederick J. Gallun & Anna Diedesch-Rouse Distinguishing the Impacts of Peripheral and Central Auditory Dysfunction 9:40-10:10 AM G. Christopher Stecker & Andrew D. Brown Sensory weighting of sound-localization cues by human listeners 10:20-10:50 AM Adrian KC Lee Cortical Dynamics of Auditory Spatial Attention 11:00 AM Break until 4:15 PM 4:15 PM Appetizers Presentations – 10 minutes 4:30-4:40 PM Irida M. Mance, Mark W. Becker & Taosheng Liu Parallel consolidation of simple features into visual short-term memory 4:40-4:50 PM Jason Fischer & David Whitney Visual perception is serially dependent 4:50-5:00 PM Gerrit W. Maus and David Whitney Visual Crowding is based on perceived positions Talks – 30 minutes 5:05-5:35 PM Jonathan G. Hakun & Timothy J. Pleskac Cross-Modality Interaction and Dynamic Signal Detection in Working Memory 5:45-6:15 PM Zachary Raymond Ernst & Geoffrey M. Boynton Evidence for object-based attention: A study of divided attention within and between surfaces 6:25-6:55 PM Edward F. Ester, Daniel Klee, & Edward Awh Visual Crowding reflects a Misbinding -not an Averaging- of Features 7:05 PM Adjourn for Evening 3 Saturday, August 6 8:30 AM Breakfast - Posters 9:00-9:30 AM Ashleigh May Chapman, Peter Graf & Todd C. Handy The Brain’s Response to Big and Small Surprises 9:40-10:10 AM John A. Dewey & Thomas H. Carr Neural responses to expected and unexpected sensory action-effects: Dissociating self-agency from the predictability of the action-effect 10:20-10:50 AM Genevieve Quek & Matthew Finkbeiner Pointing to the locus of attentional effects in subliminal priming 11:00 AM Break until 4:15 PM 4:15 PM Appetizers Presentations – 10 minutes 4:30-4:40 PM Andrew W. McCollough, Trafton Drew, Edward K. Vogel Perceptual Grouping during Multiple Object Tracking 4:40-4:50 PM Scott Reed, Andrew W. McCollough, & Edward K. Vogel Neural Measures of Object Tracking are Modulated by Sensitivity to Motion Information 4:50-5:00 PM Benjamin D. Lester & Paul Dassonville TMS reveals a right parietal role in processing visuospatial contextual information in a perceptual illusion Talks – 30 minutes 5:05-5:35 PM Allison E. Connell Pensky, Valerie Morash, & Joshua A. Miele Multiple fingers do more than expand haptic view 5:45-6:15 PM Kimberly Mae Halvorson & Eliot Hazeltine Feedback rather than performance influences perceptual judgments 6:25-6:55 PM Arne Ekstrom, Hui Zhang, & Ksenia Zherderva Survey and route learning differentially recruit view-dependent and holistic spatial representations 7:05 PM Adjourn for Evening 4 Sunday, August 7 8:30 AM Breakfast - Posters 9:00-9:30 AM Monica A. Riordan & Roger J. Kreuz Expressing Emotion Online: What We've Got Here is a Failure to Communicate 9:40-10:10 AM Eve a. Isham, Joy J. Geng, Arne D. Ekstrom & William P. Banks Fame & Fortune: External Information Guides Perception 10:20-10:50 AM David Whitney, Jason Haberman, & Tom Harp The desirability of groups 11:00 AM Break until 4:30 PM Rafters, be packed and ready to go with a sack lunch so you can be at Zoller’s by 12:00 PM or sooner. No appetizers on Banquet Night Night Talks – 30 minutes 4:45-5:15 PM Kimberly A. Jameson, Natalia L. Komarova, Sean Tauber & Louis Narens New results on simulated color categorization behaviors using realistic perceptual models, heterogeneous observers and pragmatic communication constraints 5:25-5:55 PM Louis Narens Putting Steven's Methods of Magnitude Estimation and Production on a Rigorous Measurement-Theoretic Foundation 6:05-6:35 PM Dav Clark, Daniel Reinholz , Sarah Cohen, Benjamin Walklet & Michael Ranney Overcoming climate change biases by teaching the "Goldilocks Asymmetry" of Energy Transfer Rates: A cognitive-strategy attempt to save us organisms 6:45 PM Adjourn Banquet At Cornerstone Cuisine 7:15 5 Monday, August 8 8:00 AM Breakfast – Posters (Note earlier time for those need to catch a flight.) 8:30-9:00 AM Christopher J. Smith, Jeremy M. Silverman & Arthur S. Reber Normal implicit learning in an autism spectrum disorder population – but with diminished ability to transfer information to novel displays 9:10-9:40 AM Rolf Reber & Sascha Topolinski The Phenomenology of Insights 9:50-10:20 AM Thomas H. Carr, Mura Dominko, John M. Dewey, & Andrew Schaad Test-Enhanced Learning Across Domains: Text, Math, and Transfer 10:30 AM Have a safe trip home. Roll on, Columbia Woody Guthrie Roll on, Columbia, roll on, Roll on, Columbia, roll on, Your power is turning our darkness to dawn. So roll on, Columbia, roll on. Other great rivers lend power to you, Yakima, Snake, and the Klickitat too, Sandy Willamette and the Hood River too, So roll on, Columbia, roll on. And on up the river is Grand Coulee Dam, The biggest thing built by the hand of a man, To run the great factories and water the land, So, roll on, Columbia, roll on. Tom Jefferson's vision would not let him rest, An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest, Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest. So, roll on, Columbia, roll on. 6 Breakfast Poster Abstracts Breakfast Posters Santani Teng, Bryan Low, David Whitney, UC Berkeley The auditory flash-drag effect: Distortion of auditory space by visual motion A brief visual flash presented in the presence of visual motion is displaced in the direction of motion (Whitney and Cavanagh, 2000). Here we investigated whether visual motion also distorts auditory space. In a 2AFC method of constant stimuli task, observers judged the laterality of brief auditory bursts presented from a horizontal speaker array while viewing a translating sinusoidal grating. We found that reported auditory positions were skewed in the direction of visual motion. In a second experiment, we varied the location of a moving visual grating displayed concurrently with an auditory tone while observers localized the tone in a 3AFC task. The perceived speaker location was biased in the direction of the grating location—consistent with the ventriloquism effect—but modulated by the direction of grating motion. Our results demonstrate a cross-modal flash-drag effect and suggest a shared influence of motion on visual as well as auditory spatial representations Paul F. Bulakowski, Nicole Wurnitsch, Gerrit Maus, David Whitney, Robert B. Post, University of the Pacific, UC Berkeley, UC Davis Psychophysical investigation of a baseball umpire bias during close plays at first base Judging the temporal order of fast-paced audiovisual events requires precise timing and compensation for physical and neural latency differences. Analyzing more than 300 close plays at first base from MLB 2008-09, we discovered runners are called “out” more often the further they stood from the base (based on independent judgments of umpire distance). In a set of psychophysical experiments, we varied the SOA between auditory and visual events during a temporal order judgment to test a potential explanation. We found that fast moving, but not slow moving, objects are seen to collide prior to the onset of a transient auditory event. We then show that a transient auditory event paired with a fast visual object can actually slow the perceived time of collision relative to a second visual object. This is consistent with an account that umpires employ different strategies depending on the information available to them at different distances. Dean G. Purcell, Alan L. Stewart, Oakland University; Stevens Institute of Technology The face in the crowd effect is a special case of priming Interest in facial affect increased in 1988 when visual search paradigms were adapted to study emotional expression. The Initial finding that angry faces captured an observer’s attention won it the sobriquet of the face‐in‐the‐crowd effect (FCE). But the effect may have resulted from stimulus confounds. Today there is no consensus regarding the FCE. We have come to think of the search for an emotion laden target in a crowd of non‐angry faces as sequential self‐ terminating same‐different decisions. We modified the facial‐affect priming paradigm so that observers determined if the affect of two sequential faces was the same or different. We found hat happy primes with angry targets produced faster responses than angry primes with happy targets. This is consistent with the fact angry faces are found quickly when surrounded by happy faces. Thus, it is the crowd affect that determines search time, not the target affect. 7 Breakfast Poster Abstracts Andrey Markus, Zohar Eviatar, Haifa University Inhibition by schemata: A behavioral hemispheric approach The accepted view within the schemata-driven behavior hypothesis (Shallice & Burgess, 1993; Stuss, 1995) is that a cross-domain cognitive inhibitory mechanism acts as a part of a high level supervisory system.